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Topic: Help Wanted: Map Editing Team (Read 502 times)

As some of you may be aware, it's on my list of things to change how settlements and estates are connected, and part of that requires that the map be overhauled with a significantly higher number of individual regions.

Before I go farther, I am NOT planning on expanding the map. I'm planning on shattering it. I want to take every region on the map and break it down to somewhere between a sixth and a tenth of it's current size (because some are larger than others).

The end goal is to allow a single settlement (town/city/fortress/whatever) to own multiple regions that may or may not have smaller settlements of their own. Of course, since we're looking at the map anyways, we could also go in and add a bunch of cliffs or even add in tributaries and creeks and deltas to rivers.

At minimum, I'll need people capable of installing PostgreSQL and QGIS on a machine of their own, following some instructions on how to setup the database and import the map tables, and how to actually edit the map information. QGIS editing itself, I have found to be very straightforward, but you'll need to experiement with it yourself. Given the size of the map, I'd like this to be a team project so people don't get burnt out, but I'm not in a huge hurry to get it done either.

If anyone is interested in helping to make the M&F map a more interesting thing, please let me know.

They're not graphically intensive, and I know a dual core @ 2.5GHz can run them. As for memory requirements, not certain. My lowest end system that I use has 24GB of RAM. The toll you'd be using is QGIS: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/index.html, if you'd like to test it out.

As for a new view, I know it's doable, but not how, yet. I'd like a prettier map as well.

I would volunteer to help - though be warned, I have no programming skills.

Still, I really like the idea of 'sub-regions' - and as I assume that its a lot of template editing I should be able to wrap my brain around it. Downloading Qgis now, will install and edit this post depending on that outcome....

QGis is installed, I found the tutorial. Before I work through that, any tips on what I should look at in the tutorial? And what is the actual work you are wanting help for? Any templates I could use that you want implemented?